Sentence examples for sound democracy from inspiring English sources

After all, an informed electorate is indispensable for a sound democracy.

Germany is today a sound democracy that has amply looked at its past and is in no danger of denying it.

"The idea of paying taxes is kind of fundamental to a sound democracy, and they certainly have a special obligation in that regard". Nationwide, debt to the IRS has been rising steadily, even before the current economic downturn, with $103.2 billion owed at the end of last year.

Or does the process suggest, as David Davis claimed when he stormed out of the Commons and forced a byelection, that the way the initial vote on 42 days went through the Commons demonstrates that Britain lacks a fundamentally sound democracy capable of preventing the "strangulation of our freedom"?

Exploring the director's extensive back catalogue, including Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law, Dead Man, and Only Lovers Left Alive, Sara Piazza's unique reading reveals how Jarmusch created a form of "sound democracy" in film, in which all acoustic layers are capable of infiltrating each other and in which sound is not subordinate to the visual.

"These nations may look like democracies and sound like democracies," said Mr. DeSoto, "but they certainly do not function in the same way that true democracies function".

The thunk was the reassuring sound of democracy at work.

Americans clung to the belief that the system was sound and democracy inviolate.

Protecting the press corps from young campaign aides brandishing stacks of freshly photocopied, point-by-point debate analyses might not sound like democracy's most dangerous assignment.

Sound and democracy played prominently in The Laughing Room, an installation conceived by a team including author, illustrator, and MIT PhD candidate Jonny Sun and Stephanie Frampton, Associate Professor of Literature at MIT, as part of her project called ARTificial Intelligence, a collaboration between MIT Libraries and the Cambridge Public Library.

To a lot of us that doesn't sound like democracy, whether the proportion is 50 %, 80 or 100%." Mr Cameror was warned by Deputy Prime Minister and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg earlier that the coalition had entered a "contract" to get the plans through.